Shared Economics

Share Economy is the theme for the upcoming NEXT conference in Hamburg this may, and two days ago, I’ve come to know what’s probably one of the best examples of this shared future that is shape as we speak. Next speakers list is more than impressive and they managed to round up people like Jyri Engeström (Jaiku Co-Founder, no Google), Steve Rubel, Anil Dash (Six Apart), Charlie Schick (Nokia Conversations), Ian Forrester (BBC Backstage), Lane Becker (Get Satisfaction), Henriette Weber (ToothlessTiger) and a whole lot more!

Co-working , ‘a cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents’ is probably one of the best example of shared economy, a group of people get together to create a communal space of work, where far from sharing only space and expenses they end up sharing a whole lot more, their time and knowledge, a valuable asset in todays economics.

Henriette Weber, who happens to be a speaker at NEXT and a long time friend as well a SHiFT organizer as well, crazy as she is, decided to take the Co-Working space to the next level, where in next level one can actually read new territories, in this case, the Sea, or at least any decent sized river!

And so the ‘PAN’ co-working project begun!

Henriette and her Husband Thomas have engaged in the recovery of an old family boat, to create the first mobile co-working space, the idea is for the boat to wonder around Europe, providing a unique co-working space.

Henriette is now searching for people who might wanna contribute to this project, so contact her to get to know a bit more about it and how you may help!

I think the idea totally rocks, by I’m always jumping on crazy causes, so this can just be the latest one! Picking up where Henriette started I just suggested that we complemented this with a co-working BUS, all refurbished to allow for people to use it while traveling! Crazy isn’t it?

Well, if you’d like to know more about the PAN co-working space and review Henriette presentation “Why every company should be a rockband“, just set your calendars to visit NEXT this may!

Forms 101

Finally I managed to put online the slides from the short presentation I gave 2 weeks ago at CodeBits 2008, it’s in portuguese only and it’s entirely based on Luke Wroblewski latest book – ‘Web Form Design’.

Luke kindly provided a discount code for anyone interested in buying the book or his recent webinar “Modern Web Form Design”, just use the code ‘CUSTODIO‘ -> http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/

SHiFT’08 via Animoto

A few days ago, I came across the amazing Animoto service, and since then I wanted to try it, this weekend I got enough time and energy to pick a few images from SHifT flickr set, select a nice soundtrack and just look at the nice result:

15 days to SHiFT’08

SHiFT 08 is about to roll out!

After some hard working months we’re happy with all the amazing Speakers that once again decided to come to Lisbon and help us decide on the role of technology in todays society.

SHiFT will take place during 3 days (15-17 Oct), this year theme is about transient technologies and how technology is shifting from it’s traditional boundaries, becoming progressively more transparent and ubiquitous, and being deeply integrated into almost all aspects of everyday lives.

We want SHiFT to be a happening not only in Portugal but thru Europe, and although we’re really close to the dates, we still have some last minute ‘helpers’ that might just persuade you to join us:

• A 20% discount over the normal price (use code: shift08t2a79548a)
• we’re still accepting sessions and demos, so take your chance and present something.
• In case you’re flying over, we’ve gathered some discounts with the portuguese airliner and some nice hotels too.
• Last, but not least we’re giving away a Golden Ticket, all you have to do is spread the word and enjoy an even bigger discount.

Hope to see you all at SHiFT

Mind the Gap

SHiFT 2008

The dates were already set, 15-17th Oct, but today with the new website we’ve also opened the registration process only opened today, so if you’ve been waiting for it, it’s your time to save a seat.

The speakers list is still open, but we’ve uncovered some of the key speakers for this year’s edition and we’re very proud to have them with us. During the coming days we’ll put up more and more of them, so that everyone knows who’s joining us at SHiFT.

If you wanna take a step further, there’s an open call for presentations, open to all participants, so anyone can still get their share of participation. If you know someone who’s interested in sponsoring this project, please let them know about our Sponsor Plans.

Any information or comments, please forward them to info @ shift . pt
Hope to see you all in Lisbon, next October.

Future Places

Off to Copenhagen! :)

I’ll in Copenhagen for Reboot 10, from tomorrow to Saturday, seems I just can’t get enough from this city, so there’s no lame excuse to be there!

Reboot is a unique happening, it has been a personal reboot for the past 4 years, a time off I take to brainwash myself with new and amazing ideas, but also, an opportunity to check back on friends I don’t get to see every as often as I’d like.

Tomorrow afternoon (25th) and just before Pre-Reboot Get Together, Henriette managed to persuade me to join her on workshop entitled “Community Building – Next Level“, so if you’re in Copenhagen and you’re as passionate as us about Social Web and Online Communities, join us there!

This year a bit like Peter Rukavina suggested I’ve “organically” taken a step further and I submited two proposals for presentations at Reboot. I’ll be presenting some low cost, agile techniques and solutions to the problem of ’sky rocketing costs’ of traditional usability testing. If you’re interested join me for “(Almost) Free Usability Testing”